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Anyone ever build a font around an existing few letters. How much would a project like this cost. Who does this type of work. There are 10 letters made a couple caps and all small. Any ideas??
Anyone ever build a font around an existing few letters. How much would a project like this cost. Who does this type of work. There are 10 letters made a couple caps and all small. Any ideas??
Here's the letters that exist now. They want to add Bluenose Viking and Pirate. Any idea what font they may have started with.
Fontforge, free if you know how to compile on Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix.
Fontmaster (expensive), but they have light versions for free. Not intuitive, but they are good tools
Pat uses Font Creator, if memory serves.
I'm fairly certain you can find a font that would be well suited to your specific needs. I have seen fonts very similar, so they are around.
Creating fonts is not easy. Read up about how to create a font, it is fairly involved.
Rodi
I did this a few times back in the 90's with signlab's font creator. Took WAY longer than it was worth, the kerning was always way off.
There are so many free and cheap fonts out there I can't see where it would be worth the effort for a normal sign shop. At the time I thought I was going to light the vinyl cutting world on fire though!!!